GlobalMemoryStatus

The GlobalMemoryStatus function retrieves information about current available memory.

Parameters

lpms

Points to a MEMORYSTATUS data structure that will be filled in with information about current available memory.

The MEMORYSTATUS structure has the following format:

typedef struct _MEMORYSTATUS { /* mst */

DWORD dwLength;

DWORD dwMemoryLoad;

DWORD dwTotalPhys;

DWORD dwAvailPhys;

DWORD dwTotalPageFile;

DWORD dwAvailPageFile;

DWORD dwTotalVirtual;

DWORD dwAvailVirtual;

} MEMORYSTATUS, *LPMEMORYSTATUS;

Return Value

This function does not return a value.

Comments

Applications can use the function to determine how aggressive they can be about allocating memory without severely impacting other applications.

The information returned is volatile and there is no guarantee that two sequential calls to this function will return the same values.